Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Frenchies Poutinerie is leaving Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - What has become a culinary staple of downtown Kamloops is packing up its cheese curds and moving on. Frenchies Poutinerie announced on Facebook Wednesday (Feb. 19) that it would be closing ...
Feb 20, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
School District 73 looking forward to educational funding laid out in BC Budget
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 is hoping the BC Government's recently announced budget with $2.8 billion allocated to replace, renovate, or expand K-12 schools will include facilities in Kamloops. To g...
Feb 19, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kamloops Thompson School District)
Province says TransCanada twinning is a priority; B.C. Liberals push timeline
KAMLOOPS - Construction to twin the TransCanada Highway from Kamloops to Alberta started with the stretch from Hoffman's Bluff to Pritchard, with the first phase finishing in 2012. It got as far as th...
Feb 19, 2020 The government said in a statement on Wednesday construction on the TransCanada Highway should resume near the end of the year (File Photo. Image Credit: CFJC Today)
BC Access Grant answers the call of post-secondary students
KAMLOOPS - College and University students across the province have been calling for an upfront, needs-based grant program for years- and now they have one. The BC Access Grant was announced in the Pr...
Feb 19, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Canada Games Pool users making alternate plans for six-month closure
KAMLOOPS - Starting this summer, the Canada Games Pool inside the Tournament Capital Centre will undergo an extensive, $13.5 million retrofit. During construction, the facility will be closed this Jun...
Feb 19, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops MP on Wet'suwet'en dispute: 'The government has been asleep at the switch'
OTTAWA - The MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo says the federal government could have avoided the confusion around who speaks for the Wet'suwet'en community.Hereditary chiefs are split on whether to al...
Feb 19, 2020 Image Credit:CPAC
B.C. forestry crisis having an impact on Interior real estate market
KAMLOOPS - The province's forestry crisis appears to be having an impact on the B.C. real estate market. BC Real Estate Association Chief Economist Brendon Ogmundson says most housing markets in B.C. ...
Feb 19, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Close call in early morning accident
KAMLOOPS - It was a close call this morning for a pair of Kamloops residents driving on the Trans Canada Highway. Staff Sergeant Mat Van Laer says about 2:00 AM, the two occupants were in a small car ...
Feb 19, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Sukh Gill retires from lengthy career with TNRD
KAMLOOPS - The Chief Administrative Officer for the Thompson Nicola Regional District has retired. Sukh Gill had been with the TNRD for about two decades. Board Chair Ken Gillis says Gill served as Ch...
Feb 18, 2020 Image Credit: YouTube / TNRD
Law society orders disbarment of former Kamloops lawyer who misappropriated clients' funds
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops lawyer will be disbarred and must pay more than $12,000 after "egregious misconduct" while she was practicing.The Law Society of B.C. says, in a decision dated Feb. 14, that Sean...
Feb 18, 2020 Image Credit: Yunkiphotoshot | Dreamstime.com
